Elwood Brehmer

Those hoping to get in on the ground floor of Alaska’s legal marijuana industry now have a supporter.
The Alaska Marijuana Industry Association announced it is open for business July 9 during a briefing at The Boardroom workspace in downtown Anchorage.
Alaska Marijuana Industry Association preside...

Alaska’s tourism industry leaders are among the folks trying to manage significant state budget cuts.
The Alaska Tourism Industry Association’s budget was cut by more than 45 percent as of July 1, the first day of the state fiscal year, according to ATIA President and CEO Sarah Leonard.
The fisc...

Nearly six months after the idea was announced, the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority board of directors approved the $52.5 million purchase of Fairbanks Natural Gas during a special meeting June 11.
Included in the purchase price are all of the companies under Pentex Alaska Natural...

Pebble Limited Partnership’s lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency will continue as a federal judge denied the agency’s motion to dismiss June 4.
U.S. Alaska District Court Judge H. Russel Holland concluded that while the EPA may not have established the three “anti-mine” group...

SEWARD — AVTEC, that little school at the end of the road in Seward, happens to be at the international forefront of maritime training.
Right now, the Alaska Vocational Technical Center is in the midst of its second ice navigation course — the only school in the nation to offer such a class and ...

The City of Seward hopes to break ground on its new harbor and breakwater in October, provided it can get a contractor in time.
The in-water infrastructure will be the backbone of the Seward Marine Industrial Center that will someday take advantage of several hundred acres of city-owned uplands, com...

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities wants feedback on plans to move the Sterling Highway around Cooper Landing.
DOT released a draft supplemental environmental impact statement March 29 with four alternatives to improve traffic flow and increase road capacity on a 13-mile s...

Changes are coming to the regulations that guide Alaska’s electric utilities.
Where those changes come from and how broad they are will be decided in the next six months, but nothing appears to be off limits.
In the Legislature, House Bill 78 is being scrutinized by the House Energy Committee. In ...

Increasing Medicaid access to 41,000 more Alaskans will save the state several million dollars per year according to Gov. Bill Walker’s administration.
In the first year of expansion, fiscal year 2016, the State of Alaska will save $6.1 million based on figures in a Department of Health and Social...

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